I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.